Amazon.com From the author of Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy comes a guided excavation for women who suspect that there's something more to life than the top layer pursuits of money, sex, and love. In service to these restless souls who want to scratch beneath the surface, Ban Breathnach offers tidbit-sized essays that help women unearth pay dirt--their reason for being. Using archaeology as her frame of reference, Ban Breathnach suggests imaginative exercises at the end of each chapter, which she refers to as "Field Work." Although it occasionally feels overdone, the archaeology metaphor works well--helping readers unearth their past choices and circumstances to better understand the soul's current mission. Early in the book, Ban Breathnach offers this enticing invitation to go on a spiritual dig: "Besides the fact that your soul is one of the last unlooted sources of the miraculous, with discoveries as spectacular as any found in the Delta of Venus or Egypt's Valley of the Kings, you can embark on a soul trip and be back before anyone even notices you're missing. They might be curious about that gleam in your eye and that flush on your cheek, but I'll never tell if you won't. Are you game? We're heading to the sacred site of your soul." --Gail Hudson From Publishers Weekly "Passion is truth's soul mate," writes Ban Breathnach in this follow-up to her stupendously successful Simple Abundance (1995). The author who helped millions discover the overlooked richness of everyday life by practicing gratitude now appends that message by urging us to heed our yearning for "something more." Understanding that most women are better at sacrificing themselves than at discovering and honoring their own passions, Ban Breathnach urges them to see the spiritual wisdom of "reembodiment," excavating from under layers of fear and disappointment their own moments of connection with a deeper, more authentic self. Offering a collection of teaching stories drawn from her own honestly rendered experience, as well as stories and pithy quotes from her friends and a host of notables (Rumi, Virginia Woolf, Madonna et al.), Ban Breathnach nudges readers beyond "settling and stumbling and surviving." Although she aims to help readers explore the depths of their own hearts by using an "illustrated discovery journal" (a collage of images and text meant to express the tastes and strivings of readers' authentic selves), the real power of this work, despite some workaday writing and concepts, lies in the unpretentious sincerity and raw immediacy of Ban Breathnach's many variations on the assertion that "At the end of the day, or at the end of a life, all we have is ourselves and love. And if we love ourselves, truly, madly, deeply, all we have is all we need." Writing not as a guru but as a friend who has learned to cherish her past, Ban Breathnach will galvanize her wide readership to believe we were all put on earth for something more than indifferent marriages and discarded dreams. Serving up self-worth and "repose of the soul" as the most priceless of attainments, she is a friend indeed. 750,000 first printing; One Spirit Book Club main selection; first serial to Good Housekeeping; Time Warner audio; author tour. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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这本厚厚的精装书刚到手,沉甸甸的,光是捧在手里就有一种历史的厚重感。我迫不及待地翻开了扉页,期待着一场思想的盛宴。然而,读完全书后,我却感到一种难以言喻的失落。书中的叙事线条极其复杂,仿佛是迷宫一般,作者似乎热衷于在各种晦涩的哲学概念中穿梭,却很少停下来为读者搭建一座通往核心思想的桥梁。我努力地去捕捉那些零星的火花,那些看似深刻的见解,但它们总是转瞬即逝,被冗长的理论阐述和大量的引用所淹没。语言的堆砌感太强了,每一个句子都像经过了无数次打磨,却反而失去了生命力,变成了一种精致的空壳。我时常需要停下来,查阅那些陌生的术语,试图理解作者到底想通过这些复杂的框架表达什么。结果是,我花费了大量的时间在“理解”本身,而不是在“体验”故事或思想的流动上。最终,合上书本时,我脑海中残留的,更多的是一堆待解的符号和一串串没有真正落地的概念,而不是清晰、有力的回响。这像是一次徒步穿越一片茂密的灌木丛,沿途风景或许有奇特之处,但终点在哪里,如何到达,都显得模糊不清。
评分这本书最让我感到困惑的地方在于其叙事视角的频繁跳跃。我们可能刚刚跟随主角A在巴黎的咖啡馆里进行了一次冗长的内心独白,下一秒,镜头就毫无预兆地切换到了一个在南极科考站工作的B,他正在进行一段关于冰川融化的、与主角A生活毫无关联的描写。这种剪辑手法,如果运用得当,可以营造出一种宏大的时代交响乐感;但在本书中,它更像是一场混乱的电视换台秀。不同角色的声音和主题彼此之间互相干扰,没有形成合力。我花了好大力气才记住每一个角色独特的语调和关注点,但仅仅是刚刚适应,作者又把我扔到了另一个完全陌生的场景和情绪中。最终,我无法对任何一个角色产生持久的关注或共鸣,因为我的情感投资总是被突然中断。读完之后,我感觉像是在看一部由几十部不同电影的片段强行拼凑起来的纪录片,每一个片段都很“重要”,但整体却让人感到支离破碎,难以形成连贯的整体记忆。
评分坦白说,我是在一个朋友的极力推荐下,带着极高的期望值去阅读这本书的。他们告诉我,这本书彻底改变了他们的世界观,让我对其中的“洞见”充满了好奇。可惜的是,我的体验完全是另一番景象。这本书的节奏感简直是一场灾难。开篇冗长得让人想打瞌睡,那些关于主角童年阴影的描绘,虽然细节丰富,但对于推进核心情节几乎毫无作用,所有的情绪铺垫似乎都用在了最不需要的地方。等到了中段,情节突然开始像脱缰的野马,各种突如其来的转折和新角色的加入,让我应接不暇,根本来不及消化前一个事件的影响,下一个冲击就已经砸了过来。叙事者似乎害怕任何一分钟的平静,总是在制造冲突,但这些冲突大多是人为制造的、缺乏内在逻辑支撑的。读到最后,我感觉自己像是被塞进了一辆过山车,前半程慢得让人想下车,后半程快得让人晕头转向,最后以一个虎头蛇尾的收尾草草结束。我无法与书中的任何一个角色建立起真正的情感联系,因为他们都在忙着扮演各自的“象征意义”,而非活生生的人。
评分我花了整整一个夏天的时间,试图啃完这本书,其难度不亚于攻克一道复杂的数学难题。它给我的印象,是作者试图将他所有读过的、想到的、听到的知识点一股脑地塞进同一个文本结构里,结果导致了严重的“信息过载”。书中充斥着大量的历史典故、跨学科的引用,从量子力学到拜占庭艺术史,无所不包。诚然,这种博学是值得尊重的,但问题在于,这些元素之间缺乏有机联系。它们更像是散落的宝石,被随意地洒在了广阔的背景布上,读者需要自己耗费巨大的心力去想象它们原本应该组成的图案。对于我这样的普通读者来说,阅读过程与其说是享受,不如说是一种持续的“信息辨识”工作。每一次成功识别出一个典故,带来的不是阅读的愉悦,而是一种“啊,原来是这个”的解题式的满足感,这完全不是阅读文学作品所期望的体验。我期待的是沉浸,而不是在脑海中不断地进行交叉引用和背景知识的检索。
评分这本书的装帧设计真是令人赞叹,那种复古的烫金和厚实的纸张,让人感觉自己手中握着的是一件艺术品。我原本以为这种精致的外壳下,会包裹着同样精雕细琢的文字。然而,内容上的空洞感与外表的华丽形成了强烈的反差。这本书似乎在努力地触碰宏大的主题——比如存在的意义、时间的本质——但每当它试图深入时,总是选择用一种极其程式化的、仿佛是教科书般的语言来敷衍过去。我尤其失望于作者对细节的处理。在一些本应感人至深的段落,作者使用的形容词和比喻都显得陈旧而乏味,像是从一本几十年前的文学教程里直接摘抄出来的。更要命的是,全书的语气始终保持着一种居高临下的说教姿态,仿佛作者是唯一掌握真理的人,而读者只是一个需要被教育的懵懂学生。这种傲慢的姿态,极大地削弱了文字的说服力。我更倾向于那些愿意与读者一同探索、一同犯错的叙事者,而不是一个自诩全知的导师。
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